Actors Are Cattle ... Voting open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time! (DUE: Jan. 5, 2018)

ok i'm in

Sent!

No Hollis Frampton - I suggest we stop this now.

i never made the mistake of looking at the nominees' list

still i mostly went for canonical narrative directors

Yeah just sent this

Oh I looked at the list - can't believe I didn't nominate Frampton, he's my favourite canon experimental filmmaker.

tfw you haven't included Ray or Kurosawa in your final 50.

http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/nov/Drinking-poison.jpg

Man Ray, Nick Ray or Satyajit?

I haven't included any Rays though I was talking about Satyajit.

Making me ill rn but there was some modern shit I wanted to include.

Also, if you haven't gotten a response back from me saying that your ballot's recorded, that means I didn't get your ballot and you should re-submit.

― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, January 5, 2018 2:28 AM (seventeen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does this apply to today as well? Not had a response yet.

me neither, but Eric hasn't posted here either tbf

True, don't want to seem pushy, just legitimately concerned my #1 vote Michael Bay won't make the cut.

(I jest)

Today's ballots haven't been counted yet.

I don't want to give anything away other than to say that the top dozen or so have really started to firm up their leads and positions, but for a little while there, we were looking at a truly "Deeper and Deeper" at #3 on the Madonna poll situation. (I've said too much.)

Also, I WILL say this: If you're on the fence about voting, fully the entire bottom half of the list could be radically altered with just one or two votes.

Yeah, get voting people!

The process took me an hour and a half, and the longlist was 110 directors... It was too hard so basically filled 20-50 in 5 minutes (which is probably the right way to go for me).

Only regret was not nominating Claude Lelouch and reading one could do a write in only after I submitted, but such is life.

Only get voting if you vote for the same things as me! Otherwise go away!

Otm.

this could be a pretty weird list

we were looking at a truly "Deeper and Deeper" at #3 on the Madonna poll situation. (I've said too much.)

that's Greek to me!

Only one person has voted for one specific director that made me want to make like Mr. McAllister with those two Tracy Flick ballots.

...one person so far

xp just my way of saying that one awesomely left-field director choice was making major headway to finish in the top 3 ... and could still tbh, since I haven't counted today's ballots yet

this could be a pretty weird awesome list

FTFM.

agree!

my bowels are uneasy

lol

I think we all know this is going to be bad for your dyspepsia Morbs

I'm probably going to laugh myself sick when I see the final tallies, but right now I'm excited. And Fred, I hope you'll reveal to us later some of these portentous hints you've started dropping.

Just sent my ballot in, excited for the roll-out. My top 10 or so feels fairly canonical, but it was hard for me to justify putting some of my current favorites above the people who really shaped the medium.

All different approaches to a mammoth task like this are equally viable imo, though I steered away from those "having shaped the medium" in favor of directors I think r cool. But it's all good, which is what will make this poll one of the greatest on here, I'm sure.

yeah, i mean, they were also formative directors for me when i was younger. Also when i do watch movies by one of those directors, i usually think " this is one of the greatest things ever made," even if i spend more time watching stuff from the 70s nowadays

anyway, probably boring to discuss before the roll-out, i'm really interested to see how things shake out

Still maybe a little time to get a ballot in, fwiw.

Wait for meeeee

Submitted, hopefully in time. I bumped Spielberg for Hellman but I promise I didn't feel great about it

No Hollis Frampton - I suggest we stop this now.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:00 (yesterday)

voted HF on a right in

but yeah, weird omission, nostalgia is a key film at the very least. also so many mediocre filmmakers nominated.

Think the results thread will be a lot of arguments about poptimistic votes

I wrote in one director whose omission seems p egregious to me and, looking upthread, see at least one other I prob would have voted for if they'd been on the list

(Which is kinda the argument for nominating all those mediocre filmmakers, it is useful to work from a list of all the filmmakers that are at all notable - I know I nominated ppl I had no intention of voting for but others might, & it's easy to forget even fave faves when throwing a list together)

I realised yesterday that I had forgotten to vote for Joe Dante in favour of putting in "important" & "arty" directors. But then I couldn't decide who to replace so figured I should just stick with what I sent in. But Gremlins tho.

again, I voted for one a/g director cuz c'mon, unless i've just seen something by one of em i can't remember who did what. Cinematic spinach, gimme The Iron Horse.

I agree insofar as spinach is good and full of iron

I kind of feel a bit lousy for not putting Spielberg on my ballot but I haven't liked a movie of his since "Catch Me If You Can" tbh

I regret nothing

...and i still hate eating it xxp

never considered a David Lynch vote bcz i know this crowd (also TV doesn't count)

so who's the equiv of roasted Brussels sprouts -- Sembène?

Entirely possible we mean different things when we say "a/g" of course but the stuff I'd be voting for is about bathing in texture like my aunts pozole

TV counts obv